#32

#32 is Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas.  I really liked this book for a number of reasons: 

~ It is set in Middle Swan, Colorado ~ which, as the author notes, is based on Breckenridge, a place in the Rockies close to my heart.

~ It's set in the 1930's during the gold dredging that tore a path through Breck, the remains of which can still be seen in the rocks that line the town and the old gold dredge rotting in it's pond.

~ It is a nice, sweet story of life in the mountains and the people who made it their home.  People I respect because Colorado would not be what it is today had they not been willing to go first.  I would never have been able to handle the hardship and the sadness that had to have been a part of their daily lives.

~ I also loved the concept of Prayers for Sale.  Hennie decided she was so happy in her new life in the mountains with her husband and child that she had nothing left to ask the Lord for, she had 'prayers for sale'.  And Jake made her a sign and nailed it to her front gate.

fl: The old woman peered past the red geraniums in her deep front window at the figure lingering in the moon-white snow at the gate.  ll: "I'm hopefuller than can be that it'll be a while yet before I know how that story comes out."